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Open AccessPatients with hip fracture and total hip arthroplasty surgery differ in anthropometric, but not cardiovascular screening abnormalities
With the rising number of hip surgeries, simple and cost-effective tools for surgery risk assessment are warranted. The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) may not only provide critical insights into the ...
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Open AccessPoor control of interference from negative content hampers the effectiveness of humour as a source of positive emotional experiences
The brain-based ability to direct attention away from interfering negative information may co-determine to which degree one may benefit from humour as a source of positive emotional experiences. This should be...
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Open AccessThe capacity for generating cognitive reappraisals is reflected in asymmetric activation of frontal brain regions
Encouraging patients to use cognitive reappraisal constitutes the core of modern psychotherapeutic approaches. However, evidence for specific neural correlates of the capacity for cognitive reappraisal, which ...
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Kognitive Defizite beim Burnout-Syndrom – Ein Überblick
Durch die steigende Prävalenz des Burnout-Syndroms entwickelt sich dieses zu einem Thema zunehmenden wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Neben emotionaler Erschöpfung und Depersonalisation wirkt sich vor allem die ...
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Open AccessCreative ways to well-being: Reappraisal inventiveness in the context of anger-evoking situations
Neuroscientific studies in the field of creativity mainly focused on tasks drawing on basic verbal divergent thinking demands. This study took a step further by investigating brain mechanisms in response to ot...
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Academic Goal Orientation and Cardiovascular Reactivity in a Performance Situation
The present study investigated whether students’ academic goal orientation (learning goals, performance goals, work avoidance) and their individual competence beliefs (their academic self-concept) can predict...
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Cardiovascular Effects of Acute Positive Emotional Arousal
Since there are several popular beliefs about putative health benefits of amusement which are empirically substantiated poorly about putative health benefits of amusement, the immediate cardiovascular effects...
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State-dependent changes of prefrontal–posterior coupling in the context of affective processing: Susceptibility to humor
The aim of the present study was to examine whether interindividual differences in the coupling or decoupling of prefrontal and posterior cortices during the exposure to social–emotional information may predic...
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Heart rate and stroke volume response patterns to augmented orthostatic stress
Combined head up tilt (HUT) and lower body negative pressure (LBNP) can be used to exploit the full spectrum of cardiovascular control mechanisms and to reveal characteristics of individual blood pressure cont...
